Chips, Antes and Blinds

There has been some talk about changing the chip count from $1000 to $1500. Also, changing the format to include antes in the later rounds. What this would do is basically set up our tournaments in the exact same format as is played at Foxwoods. The only difference is we would adjust the time so that we would be playing a tournament every two hours give or take.

I think the format we have now is nice, but it would be nice to use the same format as Foxwoods. Another thing is if we start having larger tournament I have only so many chips. Even though with the format used at Foxwoods you get more money, you actually get fewer chips.

Weekly Tournaments

Weekly tournaments. What else can I say? There has been quite a bit of talk about people wanting to play every Friday. I am all for it, except that I can not have it at my house every Friday. I will continue to have games at my house every other Friday. If someone else would like to hold it at there house, I am willing to let people borrow my tables.

Buy In

Currently we have a standard buy in of $10 per game. Some people have talked about having a $20 game and then the rest $10. Some think the first game should be $20 and some think if we have a third game that should be $20. I am interested what your thoughts are?

My thoughts are that I could play the game for $1 and I would still play the same way, I want to win. The money is not all that important to me. I hold these games for people to just have fun and play cards. I tell people up front that if they are coming to my house to win some serious cash don't bother because the stakes are not high enough.

If more people are interested in raising the stakes, I will go with the majority. Another option is to hold a special tournament a couple times a year with higher stakes.

Points

I am looking for input on the points system. Currently we award points to the top 9 places as long as there are at least 11 players. If there are 10 players or less then just half the people get points (example - 5 places for 9-10 people, 4 places for 7-8 people). Some people have mentioned that we should have points for half the places regardless of how many people play. Please let me know your thoughts.